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22 Jul 2012, 05:20 PM | Post: #11

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My parents have doorstep delivery but it's only on certain days of the week and the milk goes off quicker. However, you do get "top of the milk".

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23 Jul 2012, 10:43 PM | Post: #12

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Those breakdown figures are interesting. I'd rather suspected that at the £2 for 8 pints price Asda was using it as a loss-leader, but even at that price it is making a 19% gross profit and at the typical £1.18 the supermarkets are making 40% gross profit - which should be unacceptable on a basic, essential foodstuff. As is often the case with supermarkets, with a loss-leader it's the producer that makes the loss.
Dairy farmers have struggled for years. Any increase in the price they receive usually comes at the end of a period of rising costs when they have had difficulty staying in business.
The resurgence in folk music over the last few years has meant a return to popularity of the protest song. Maggie Duffy, one of our local singer/songwriters wrote 'Cheap Daily Life' over a year ago after she'd heard a very moving interview on Radio Devon with a tearful dairy farmer. You can listen to it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKKGVXrvcr0 . Not the finest recording, but the message is clear enough.

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24 Jul 2012, 04:33 AM | Post: #13

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Linda you've really opened my eyes. After reading your post and the breakdown figures I did a little investigating only to discover we have a very similar situation here in Oz. The big difference I could see is that we have subsidized farming in Australia with the Federal Government supporting a wide range of our farmers - from what I've been reading it seems to be the only way they can survive. Add the greediness of supermarkets to the all too common droughts that farmers face I'm beginning to think it's lucky we have foodstuffs at all. I'll certainly be looking carefully at how and where I spend my money in the future.

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